Epistinia Stepanova lost 8 sons on the fronts of the war. Films, monuments, paintings were created in memory of this heroic family.
Epistinia Stepanova is a soldier’s mother. She is known for the fact that 9 sons of this heroic woman died at the front during the war, during battles with enemies, due to wounds.
Biography
The future "Mother Heroine" was born on a farm named after May Day in November 1874, then she lived in the Kuban.
Epistinia Fedorovna began to work early. Already at the age of 8, she labored: she cleaned bread, grazed poultry.
The girl saw the future husband of Stepanov Mikhail Nikolaevich only when he came to marry her. Michael was born in 1878. And after the revolution, he was a collective farm leader.
Epistinia Fedorovna early remained a widow. In 1934, her husband was gone. Thus ended the personal life of a woman. The young wife and mother were left with small children in their arms.
Epistinia Stepanova had a very difficult fate. She was losing her children one by one.
At first, Stesha's daughter was gone. When the girl was 4 years old, she accidentally poured boiling water on herself and scalded it. When Epistinia Stepanova was ready to become a mother again, her twin boys were born dead. Grisha's son at the age of 5 fell ill with a mumps and died.
Two years before the start of the war, the daughter of Vera, who was poisoned by carbon monoxide, died. So, out of 15 children, Epistinia Fedorovna left 10 - one daughter and 9 sons. But the boys were waiting for a tragic and at the same time heroic fate.
Elder sons of the "Mother Heroine"
The oldest at that time was the boy Sasha. He was born in 1901. After the October Revolution of 1917, a civil war was going on in the country. The Stepanov family helped the Red Army. The whites found out about this, they grabbed Alexander and shot him.
The next died Fedor Mikhailovich. He was born in 1912. Over time, he graduated from the courses of commanders, after which he was sent to the military district of Transbaikalia. Fedor Stepanov died in battle, in the vicinity of the Khalkhin-Gol River in August 1939.
Then the son of Paul died. The young man was 22 years old when he was called to the front. Studying the biography of a young man, you can understand that Pavel Mikhailovich managed to become a member of the Komsomol, then fought in the 55th division. He went missing in late 1941.
And in 1942 Ivan was gone. In the summer of 1941, a young man was captured, fled, wandered. By the autumn of 1942 he went to the village of "The Great Forest". The family of collective farmers sheltered him. The young man married, went to the partisans. But then the Germans caught him and shot him.
